Several terminal beeps sounded, and a message came in.
Chu Feng opened it and saw that it was a message from Lieutenant Lin Yi, which should be all Lope's information.
After he clicked in, the dense content appeared on the display screen in the air.
"Zhou Zhou, you were born at the end of the empire, let's see, where was your home at that time..."
Chu Feng fiddled with the screen with his hands and kept turning the pages. Luo Zhouzhou sat in the co-pilot and watched him.
While flipping, he stopped, as if seeing something interesting, and looked at the picture with interest.
"What's wrong? What did you find?" Luo Zhouzhou turned his body to his side and looked over.
Chu Feng moved the display screen to the side and let it stay between the two, "Look."
On the screen, he looked at Lope, who was still very young, holding a dirty boy who looked four or five years old.
The two of them walked on a path with a vineyard in the background, and beyond, the blue sea.
The boy's body was covered with mud, and there was nothing clean, only his round eyes were shining with clear light.
Lope held him in one hand and an ice cream in the other, and said something with his head down.
The boy's mind clearly flew away, his eyes fixed on the ice cream in his hand.
Chu Feng smiled and asked Luo Zhouzhou, "Who do you think this boy is? Why are you so greedy..."
Luo Zhouzhou also laughed twice, and his expression gradually became dazed.
Looking at this picture, he felt that something flashed in his mind, like some fragments buried in the depths of his memory, which naturally surfaced.
There was a blue ocean in that memory, the sea water gently submerged his calf, and the small fish gently touched his feet, itching.
He seemed to hear a good laugh, and a string of tiny footprints on the beach.
Going forward along the path by the sea, a big yellow dog was rolling in the mud pit. He heard the boy's childish voice: Da Huang, are you taking a bath? I'll accompany you.
"Luo Zhouzhou, I've been looking for you for a long time, what do you think you're rolling in the mud?"
An exasperated screeching sound came from the edge of the mud pit.
He looked up and saw Lope with ice cream in his hand.
Lope is very young, not fat, nor big belly. He scolded loudly, stretched out his hand worriedly and said, "Come here, come to Daddy."
…
"Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou."
Chu Feng's voice woke Luo Zhouzhou.
He suddenly woke up and saw Chu Feng waving his right hand in front of him.
"What are you thinking about? You've lost your mind." Chu Feng asked.
Luo Zhouzhou looked at him and muttered uncomfortably, "Chu Feng, I seem to have remembered something."
"What do you remember?"
Luo Zhouzhou lost his mind again and said, "I remember this photo when the general asked me to go home. We were still on the road and were taken by someone who likes photography."
"You mean that Luo Zhouzhou in this photo is yourself?"
"What's going on here? I've been in the clan since I was a child, why do I have these memories?" Luo Zhouzhou's face was blank.
Chu Feng looked at him quietly, and asked after a while, "Zhou Zhou, if you have two memories, do you still remember how you came here from your vampire world?"
Luo Zhouzhou recalled: "It was early morning, and I just went back to my attic to sleep - I slept in a coffin, a little old, but very comfortable."
"Well, what's next?"
"I fell asleep in a daze when someone knocked on the door, calling my young master to get up, and the general and his wife were waiting downstairs." Luo Zhouzhou scratched his face, "When I wake up, I'm here."
Chu Feng tapped the steering wheel lightly with his fingers and asked tentatively, "Zhou Zhou, have you ever thought that maybe your memory really deceived you?"
"Are you saying that the vampire thing is fake?" Luo Zhouzhou asked.
Chu Feng looked at him and did not reply.
Luo Zhouzhou's eyes turned red instantly, and his two fangs stuck out.
He tapped his fangs with his fingernails, rattled, and said, "Look, it's real."
Turning his head again, he looked around in the carriage, "I'll find a piece of iron to bite you, you can bite out a hole."
Chu Feng said quickly: "No need, I believe your teeth are real."
Luo Zhouzhou took back the vampire form and said in confusion: "I always thought there was still Luo Zhouzhou, but am I really him?"
Chu Feng leaned over his body, took him in his arms and patted him, and said, "Take your time, don't worry, everything will always come to your mind."
"Well, all right."
Chu Feng started the vehicle, started off-road slowly, and drove west along the avenue.
After driving for more than an hour, I got off the highway and drove onto a straight road.
Although nothing could be seen in the city, it was already an early spring scene, the fields were lush and green, and the mountains were full of flowers of various colors.
Luo Zhouzhou pressed down the car window and breathed in the grassy air in the mountains.
"Do you know where we're going?" Chu Feng asked.
"I don't know." Luo Zhouzhou was lying on the car window, a little scorched by the sun.
Chu Feng said: "We are going to the place where you lived when you were a child, and your father's things may be hidden there. It's just that we thought about it, and others will think about it. It depends on who can get it first."
Luo Zhouzhou didn't answer, letting the wind blow his forehead and squinting comfortably.
Chu Feng freed a hand, rubbed his head, and said, "Like a kitten."
"Aim." Luo Zhouzhou called out, then raised his head and licked it in his palm.
Chu Feng retracted his hand and said with a smile, "I warn you, if you do this again, don't even think about going there, and you won't be able to get anywhere in the dark."
"aim."
"Did you hear clearly?"
"Meow meow."
The cross-country travels between the fields and the woods, and gradually, the air becomes moist and full of fishy and salty taste.
After driving for another half an hour, after turning a corner, what appeared in front of me was a boundless blue sea.
"The sea! The sea!" Luo Zhouzhou exclaimed excitedly, stood up from his seat, and bumped his head.
Chu Feng quickly stepped on the brakes, reached out to touch his head, and asked repeatedly, "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt." Luo Zhouzhou only looked ahead.
"This sound makes me feel pain, how can you say it doesn't hurt?"
Chu Feng took his head and looked carefully to see if there were any bulges. Luo Zhouzhou showed his eyes from under his arms and continued to stare ahead.
That azure surging softly in the sun, shining with tiny bits of light.
Luo Zhouzhou felt that this scene was so familiar, that this sea existed in his memory.
"Fortunately, there are no bulges." After Chu Feng checked it carefully, he let go of his head and restarted the car.
Seeing that Luo Zhouzhou was still looking at the sea for a moment, he asked, "Is this the first time you have seen the sea?"
Luo Zhouzhou nodded, then shook his head again.
Chu Feng laughed and said, "You must have seen a lot when you were young. Your home is by the sea."
"...I don't know if that's me, but...it's probably me. That's a lot."
Going forward along the coastline, the surrounding houses gradually increased, and a small town appeared in front of him.
This is a typical seaside town. The houses are not high, and all kinds of dried fish are dried in front of each house.
"This is our destination today, Saisu Town."
Chu Feng drove the car into the town.
While looking at the road sign, he said to Luo Zhouzhou: "You were born in the last years of the empire. At that time, General Lope was just a minor administrator in Enben County, in charge of Saisu Town, where your family lived at that time."
Luo Zhouyi looked out of the car window for a moment, at the two-story buildings and gardens, as well as the carved fences covered with vines.
While off-roading through a vineyard, he saw a puddle outside the garden.
The puddle should be used for ordinary water storage, and the water is very clear. But Luo Zhouzhou knew that as long as it rained, the sand on the nearby hill would be washed down, and it would be very cloudy.
"Ah, there—" he called out briefly, pointed to the puddle with his finger, and looked back at Chu Feng.
Chu Feng looked in the direction he pointed and asked, "What happened there?"
Luo Zhouzhou took back his hand a little embarrassedly and said, "It's nothing."
Seeing his guilty face, Chu Feng knew that he was not telling the truth, so he smiled and didn't point it out.
"What are you laughing at?" Luo Zhouzhou glanced at him secretly.
"It's nothing, I remembered something."
"What are you talking about?"
"Children also have secrets."
There is no one in this town, everything is quiet, and time seems to have stagnated.
After finally seeing the old man sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, he found out the address of Lope's house.
Lope's house is not far ahead. According to the old man, it will be there in ten minutes.
Before and after the house in front of him has a large garden, surrounded by iron fences.
In front of the courtyard gate, there is also a letter box made of wood with the words Lope written on it.
The characters are painted with white paint, and they are crooked. Because of the many strokes, the Pei characters are very laborious to write. They are twice the size of the Luo characters, and they look like they came from the hands of children.
"Did you write it?" Chu Feng asked while looking at the mailbox.
Luo Zhouzhou walked to the mailbox and gently stroked the two words with his hand.
In a trance, he saw his younger self, while reciting Lope's name, while carefully brushing with a small brush.
Mrs. Lope stood in the garden watering the flowers and looked at him with a smile.
"I wrote it," he whispered.
Chu Feng reached out and pushed the iron door, and the door was locked.
He looked around, quickly climbed over the iron fence beside the door, stretched out his hand and said, "Come up."
Luo Zhouzhou grabbed his hand and climbed up, and then carefully slid into the courtyard along the iron fence.
There are weeds in the yard, stepping on the soft and soft, and a small building in the middle is painted white.
Although the walls have faded over the years, the owner's love for this home can be seen.
Chu Feng took him and walked around the house.
The house has a garden in front, a lawn and swimming pool in the back, and there are no garages and large locust trees.
Just found a window at the back of the house.
This house has not been inhabited for a long time, and the wooden lattice of the window is a little hollow. Chu Feng pinched one of them and forced it out. With a few clicks, the window was opened.
Chu Feng jumped into the house and pulled Luo Zhouzhou in.
While patting the ashes on him, he surveyed the house.
It seems that this should be the kitchen, with empty cooking counters and vegetable sinks, no kitchen utensils, only two rows of closed cabinets.
Chu Feng opened every cabinet and turned over, but found nothing except for a few bottles of remaining seasonings.
"Someone has been here, and they are looking for something." He looked up at the ceiling that had been removed.
"Then they didn't find anything, did they?"
"I didn't find it. This is your old house. Calgar must have sent someone to search for it."
Chu Feng clapped the ash on his hands and said, "Let's go, go to other rooms and see."
This is a small two-storey building. The ground floor lobby has been emptied. It is clear at a glance that there are not two pieces of furniture left.
I think at that time, Lope was just a small local magistrate, and he was very poor. When he moved, he took all the things he could use with him.
They went up to the second floor again and pushed open the doors of each room.
The rooms, like the ones downstairs, were empty, with all the wooden floors and ceilings pried over, and there was nowhere to hide what Lope called evidence.
Only after pushing one of the doors open, the two stopped.
Luo Zhouzhou stared blankly for a while, then walked in slowly.
It's a children's room, with walls painted light blue and colorfully painted with crayons.
There are simple letters, the sun, the sea, and little people with crooked noses and short legs.
One of them is a pair of three people, standing on the green lawn holding hands, with the bright sun hanging over their heads.
This painting should be Lope and Mrs. Lope, playing with Luo Zhouzhou.
Luo Zhouzhou stroked the colored lines with his fingers, and saw his younger self, sitting on the ground with a pile of crayons beside him, carefully drawing on the wall.
"Zhou Zhou, it's time to eat." Mrs. Lope called from downstairs.
"Wait a minute, it'll be alright," he replied loudly.
…
Luo Zhouzhou slowly looked forward along the wall, and stopped when he reached the window on the right.
There is also a crayon drawing on the wall by the window of two people, an adult and a child.
The adults were wearing long clothes that stretched to the instep, and the children were also wearing long clothes with their hair tied back in a ponytail.
Chu Feng saw him staring at the painting for a long time and came over.
After looking at the wall seriously, he asked, "Which little girl is this painting of Mrs. Lope with?"
Luo Zhouzhou stared blankly at the painting, as if he didn't hear Chu Feng's question, and said nothing.
"What's wrong? Did you remember something?" Chu Feng looked at him and asked.
After a while, Luo Zhouzhou slowly turned around, his expression was very strange, and there was an abnormal blush on his face.
"Chu Feng, Chu Feng..." His voice trembled.
Chu Feng glanced at the painting again and asked, "Zhou Zhou, what do you remember?"
"No, it's this painting."
Seeing that he was starting to gasp for breath, Chu Feng held onto his shoulder and said, "What's wrong with this painting? Take it slow, don't worry."
"This painting is of the patriarch and me." Luo Zhouzhou took a deep breath.
"What? The patriarch and you? The patriarch of the vampires?"
"Yes."
Luo Zhouzhou pointed at the adult and said, "He is not wearing a skirt, but a blue robe. Look at his long beard, he is the patriarch."
He pointed to the child again and said, "This is not a little girl, it's me. When I was in the clan, our little vampires all wore purple robes, and their hair was tied in a ponytail at the back."
Chu Feng put down his hand and walked over to take a closer look at the painting.
A lot of lines were smeared with a black crayon on the chin of the adult, which was obviously a drawn beard.
Neither of them looked like skirts, but rather blue and purple robes.
"However, why did you draw the patriarch here?" Chu Feng was a little confused at the moment.
"Chu Feng, it's true, this is the patriarch and me." Luo Zhouzhou was so excited that his eyes sparkled, "This Luo Zhouzhou is me, we are the same person."
"I know, I trust you, but..." Chu Feng stared at the painting and asked, "Then do you have any impression of this painting?"
Luo Zhouzhou recalled for a while, and said blankly: "I have no impression at all."
He became anxious and pressed his head with his hands, "Why can't I remember it? Why can't I remember it at all?"
"Hush hush hush, don't worry, don't worry." Chu Feng took him into his arms, "It's no big deal, even if you can't remember it, it doesn't matter."
Chu Feng shook him gently, "I don't want to, let's not think about it, maybe after a while, the memory will automatically appear in your mind, right? It's like we can't find anything when we look for it, and suddenly one day Saw."
Luo Zhouzhou lay in his arms, calmed down slowly, and nodded silently.
"Okay, let's keep looking." Chu Feng kissed the top of his head.
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